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1) The 2 [Government] shall appoint some officer or body of persons at every port at which any dues, fees or other charges are authorised to be taken by or under this Act to receive the same and, subject to the control of the 2 [Government], to expend the receipts on any of the objects authorised by this Act.
(2) Such officer or body shall keep for the port a distinct account, to be called the port fund account, showing, in such detail as the 2 [Government] prescribes, the receipts and expenditure of the port, and shall publish annually as soon after the first day of April as may be practicable an abstract, in such form as 5[the Government] prescribes, of the account for the past financial year: 6 [Provided that the port fund account for any port may, if so authori sed under the provisions of any Act relating to such port, be merged with the general account of that port, and in such a case, the provisions of sub-section (6) shall not apply and the provisions of sub-sections (4) and (5) shall have effect as if for the words “the port fund account of the port” therein, the words “the general account of the port” had been substituted.] 7 * * * * * (4) All money received under this Act at or on account of any port subject to this Act, excluding receipts on account of pilotage but including - 8 [(a) fines other than those creditable to the pilotage. account of the port under sub-section (5a)], (b) proceeds of waifs, and (c) any balance of the proceeds of a sale under section 14 where no right to the balance has been established on a claim made within three years from the date of the sale, shall be credited in the port fund account of the port.
(5) All expenses incurred for the sake of any such port, excluding expenses on account of pilotage but including— (a) the pay and allowances of all persons upon the establishment of the port, (b) the cost of buoys, becons, lights and all other works maintained chiefly for the benefit of vessels being in or entering or leaving the port or passing through the rivers or channels leading thereto,